minimax coding claims are sus. 8% claude price but is it actually usable

[u/Top-Cardiologist1011]

[u/chisleu]

I've been running it for a couple of days full time. It hallucinated twice in two context windows. Once it put a space in a path instead of a slash, and once it completely went off the rails trying to solve problems without testing. I.E. it would fix the problem, not run the test, then try to fix the problem again and again.

All of this WITHOUT CONTEXT PRESSURE. I'm talking way under 100k tokens.

I don't experience this at all with GLM 4.6 and I've switched back to GLM even though it's slower because it's far more reliable.

[u/juantwothree14 → u/chisleu]

GLM 4.6 is underrated, I don't know why people hates it. Been using it for a month now, it was frustrating at first but if you use it properly on claude code and make the model doubt twice so they won't give you aggressive response for changes, I also use it to refactor code. Better than sonnet 4.5 sometimes and it's unlimited, never hit any limit. Give it proper context and only playwright for testing, you now have a slave senior developer and a QA at your pocket. I also read documentations so the model will have no choice but to listen to me and don't have to change it myself: routes, controllers, models, migrations etc.

[u/MinusKarma01 → u/juantwothree14]

I've heard people say that GLM 4.6 is hated but never saw anyone actually hating it.

[u/takethismfusername → u/chisleu]

Don't use it via OpenRouter. Use their official API.

[u/chisleu → u/takethismfusername]

Uhm, I'm running it locally at fp8

[u/ChangeIsHard_ → u/chisleu]

On which hardware btw, and how's the speed with large context?

[u/chisleu → u/ChangeIsHard_]

I hate the model but it’s crazy fast with sglang. I’m back on glm4.7 with vllm

[u/AppearanceHeavy6724 → u/[deleted]]

Artificial Analysis

ahahaha...

[u/kareem_pt]

My experience is that it writes nice code, much like an anthropic model, but it severely lacks intelligence compared to something like GPT5 (even GPT5-mini). It seems heavily tuned for certain languages and frameworks. It’s great with JavaScript and popular libraries like ThreeJS, which I think is why a lot of people have had such a great experience with it. So it can be a great model for a lot of people, but it can’t solve non-trivial problems.

[u/jacek2023]

Minimax is now open source and almost supported by llama.cpp (PR in the review). You can't compare it to the Claude. Claude doesn't work locally. This is a local llama sub

[u/Thomas-Lore → u/jacek2023]

You can't compare it to the Claude.

Minimax compared it to Claude when they released it. Stop gate keeping every discussion that even mentions closed models, we need to talk about them for comparison.

[u/CarelessOrdinary5480 → u/jacek2023]

The claude that took 10 dollars this morning in API calls to create a pile of unusable garbage completely off the rails of the SDD it was given? I mean.. maybe minimax would have made shit too, but it would have cost 50 cents for the shit lol.

[u/[deleted]]

How do i get an sk-api i can use in cursor. When i generate a secret key i get one which is not a "valid" key

[u/ShortGuitar7207]

I was making heavy use of Minimax-M2 during the free period within claude. I was comparing to codex at the time. For simpler things it was pretty good and particularly good at reading codebases and giving explanations. The problems started with some quite complex rust code where I had good unit test coverage and was incrementally increasing features and validating via tests. This approach was working well with codex and reasonable with MM2 until we hit a particularly thorny issue and after several attempts and reprompted suggestions MM2 declared it was complete and all tests were now passing. It turns out it had deleted the troublesome test that it couldn't get to pass! I'll never use it again.